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The
Permaculture Handbook:
Garden Farming for Town and Countryby Peter Bane, Foreword
by David Holmgren
Price: $45, 2012, 608pp.(Expected delivery of this
book is June 2012)

The
urban landscape has swallowed vast swaths of prime farmland
across North America. Imagine how much more self-reliant
our communities would be if 30 million acres of lawns
were made productive again. Permaculture is a practical
way to apply ecological design principles to food, housing,
and energy systems; making growing fruits, vegetables
and livestock easier and more sustainable.

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The
Permaculture Handbook is a step-by-step, beautifully
illustrated guide to creating resilient and prosperous
households and neighborhoods, complemented by extensive
case studies of three successful farmsteads and market
gardens. This comprehensive manual casts garden farming
as both an economic opportunity and a strategy for living
well with less money.

It
shows how, by mimicking the intelligence of nature and
applying appropriate technologies such as solar and
environmental design, permaculture can:

Create
an abundance of fresh, nourishing local produce

Reduce
dependence on expensive, polluting fossil fuels

Drought-proof
our cities and countryside

Convert
waste into wealth

Permaculture
is about working with the earth and with each other
to repair the damage of industrial overreach and to
enrich the living world that sustains us. The Permaculture
Handbook is the definitive, practical NorthAmerican
guide to this revolutionary practice, and is a must-read
for anyone concerned about creating food security, resilience
and a legacy of abundance rather than depletion.

Permaculture
Design: A Step-by-Step Guide by Aranya
$25, 191pp, 2012

Developed
from course worksheets that have been tested on students
over time, Aranya's Permaculture Design leads you through
the design process from beginning to end using clear
explanations, flowcharts and diagrams.
Linking theory to practice, Aranya places the ethics,
prinicples, philosophies, tools and techniques directly
into the context of the process itself. While written
for anyone with a basic grasp of permaculture, this
book also has plenty to offer the more experienced designer.
Topics include:
Systems and patterns / Working as part of a design team
/ Land and non-land based design / Design frameworks
/ Site surveying and map making / Interviewing clients
/ Working with large client groups / Identifying functions
/ Choosing systems and elements / Placement and integration
/ Creating a design proposal / Project management /
Presenting your ideas to clients

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NEW!!
How To Read The Landscape
by Patrick Whitefield$24,
2014, 236pp.

According to an ICM poll, 77 percent
of UK adults, or about 38 million people, say they walk
for pleasure at least once a month. It is remarkable,
therefore, that no one has written about the landscapes
they’re walking through and enjoying . . . until
now.

Patrick Whitefield has spent a lifetime
living and working in the countryside and twenty years
of that taking notes of what he sees, everywhere from
the Isle of Wight to the Scottish Highlands. This book
is the fruit of those years of experience.

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In
How to Read the Landscape, Patrick explains everything
from the details, such as the signs that wild animals
leave as their signatures and the meaning behind the
shapes of different trees, to how whole landscapes,
including woodland, grassland, and moorland, fit together
and function as a whole.

Rivers
and lakes, roads and paths, hedgerows and field walls
are also explained, as well as the influence of different
rocks, the soil, and the ever-changing climate. There’s
even a chapter on the fascinating history of the landscape
and one about natural succession, how the landscape
changes of its own accord when we leave it alone. The
landscape will never look the same again. You will not
only appreciate its beauty, it will also come alive
with a whole new depth of appreciation and understanding

Thinking
in Systems: A Primerby Donella Meadows
$20, 2008, 240pp.

“Dana
Meadows’ exposition in this book exhibits a degree
of clarity and simplicity that can only be attained
by one who profoundly and honestly understands the subject
at hand--in this case systems modeling. Many thanks
to Diana Wright for bringing this extra legacy from
Dana to us.” —Herman Daly, Professor, School
of Public Policy, University of Maryland at College
Park

“When
I read Thinking in Systems I am reminded of the enormity
of the gap between systemic thinkers and policy makers.
If this book helps narrow the gap, it will be Dana’s
greatest contribution.” —Lester Brown, founder
and President, Earth Policy Institute

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“Dana
Meadows was one of the smartest people I ever knew,
able to figure out the sensible answer to almost any
problem. This book explains how she thought, and hence
is of immense value to those of us who often wonder
what she'd make of some new problem. A classic.”
—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy

“Thinking
in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to
run a successful company, community, or country. Learning
how to think in systems is now part of change-agent
literacy. And this is the best book of its kind.”
—Hunter Lovins, founder and President of
Natural Capital Solutions and coauthor of Natural Capitalism:
Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

Practical
Permaculture for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole
Earth

By
Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein. Illustrations by Paul Kearsley

Permaculture's
principles are simple: take care of the earth, and the earth
will take care of you. Ecological landscape designer Jessi
Bloom and permaculture expert Dave Boehnlein provide all the
tools you need for this holistic approach to living that leads
to healthy food, a healthy home, and renewable resources.

The book
covers the basic principles of permaculture, showing the entire
design process, and offers detailed information on the plants,
water, waste, energy, shelter, food, animals, and structures
that make up the garden. Filled with real-life examples from
all over the world, this invaluable resource will help you
turn your home garden into a sustainable ecosystem.

"Powerful,
visceral, readable, and inspiring. It shows us how we can
and should live." - Joel Salatin, farmer and author

$75,
2004, 480pp, 206 black and white photos, 43 color
photos, 145 line diagrams & numerous tables.
Seven years in the making, this is the long awaited
study of permaculture specifically for cooler climates.
It takes a detailed view of designing sustainable systems
both large and small, urban and rural.Defining permaculture
and placing it in the context of the green movement,
this important book is divided into three parts. Part
One: The principles underlying permaculture as applied
to soil, fertility, water, climate, microclimate, energy
and materials.

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Part
Two: Applying permaculture to buildings, gardens, orchards,
farming, woodlands and biodiversity. Part Three: The permaculture
design process in action, how to develop your home or
project on permaculture lines, plus many useful skills
and techniques. Scrupulously researched and written in
an accessible style by Patrick Whitefield, one of Europe’s
foremost permaculture teachers, designers and author of
How to Make a Forest Garden and Permaculture
in a Nutshell. It is lavishly illustrated, filled
with case studies and useful contacts.

This
book builds on the extraordinary success of the permaculture
concept and global permaculture movement (over the last
25 years), to provide a more cerebral and controversial
contribution to the sustainability debate.

David
Holmgren is an ecological pioneer destined to have a
major influence on permaculture's evolution.
"If the 'Permaculture Principles' that David Holmgren
discusses in this extremely important book were applied
to all that we do, we would be well on the road to sustainability,
and beyond." Professor Stuart B Hill (Foundation
Chair of the Social Ecology University of Western Sydney).

Are
there ways to live within nature's limits while providing
a secure future for our children and justice for everyone?
We think so. Read this book.

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Beyond
the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem
Restoration By Tao Orion
Foreword by David Holmgren

Invasive
species are everywhere, from forests and prairies to mountaintops
and river mouths. Their rampant nature and sheer numbers appear
to overtake fragile native species and forever change the
ecosystems that they depend on. Concerns that invasive species
represent significant threats to global biodiversity and ecological
integrity permeate conversations from schoolrooms to board
rooms, and concerned citizens grapple with how to rapidly
and efficiently manage their populations. These worries have
culminated in an ongoing “war on invasive species,”
where the arsenal is stocked with bulldozers, chainsaws, and
herbicides put to the task of their immediate eradication.
In Hawaii, mangrove trees (Avicennia spp.) are sprayed with
glyphosate and left to decompose on the sandy shorelines where
they grow, and in Washington, helicopters apply the herbicide
Imazapyr to smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) growing
in estuaries. The “war on invasive species” is
in full swing, but given the scope of such potentially dangerous
and ecologically degrading eradication practices, it is necessary
to question the very nature of the battle.

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Beyond
the War on Invasive Species offers a much-needed alternative
perspective on invasive species and the best practices for
their management based on a holistic, permaculture-inspired
framework. Utilizing the latest research and thinking on
the changing nature of ecological systems, Beyond the War
on Invasive Species closely examines the factors that are
largely missing from the common conceptions of invasive
species, including how the colliding effects of climate
change, habitat destruction, and changes in land use and
management contribute to their proliferation. Beyond the
War on Invasive Species demonstrates that there is more
to the story of invasive species than is commonly conceived,
and offers ways of understanding their presence and ecosystem
effects in order to make more ecologically responsible choices
in land restoration and biodiversity conservation that address
the root of the invasion phenomenon. The choices we make
on a daily basis—the ways we procure food, shelter,
water, medicine, and transportation—are the major
drivers of contemporary changes in ecosystem structure and
function; therefore, deep and long-lasting ecological restoration
outcomes will come not just from eliminating invasive species,
but through conscientious redesign of these production systems.

“Some
of our most productive and tasty plants in the permaculture
landscape are vilified as invasive weeds that need controlling.
This is a mindset that also promotes a delineation between
conservation and agriculture. My personal response is to
cultivate fewer conventional annual vegetables and grow
and eat as many of these weeds as is appropriate, creating
an extensive, diverse, and resilient forage system in my
own backyard. It is time to stop putting land management
into boxes and create wildlife habitats and food in stacked
systems.

"Tao
Orion explains how to take advantage of the vigor of ‘invasive’
edible and useful exotics and harvest them. This is how
to bring ecosystems back into balance. This is adaptive
permaculture thinking at the broad-scale level. Chelsea
Green has produced yet another pioneering book, demonstrating
how permaculture is way ahead of conventional land-management
practices.”--Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture
magazine, cofounder of The Sustainability Centre in the
UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

“An
interesting and valuable contribution to the ongoing refutation
of invasive species ideology. Detailed and wide-ranging,
Orion extends and deepens several analyses of invasionism,
and offers several interesting new perspectives. She points
to holistic systems management as an alternative to the
current war on invasives. Land managers and invasionists
would do well to give it a careful read.”--D.I.
Theodoropoulos, author of Invasion Biology: Critique of
a Pseudoscience

“This
book brings much-needed balance to the overheated debate
about so-called invasive species. Tao Orion’s meticulously
researched yet engaging work shows that the true culprits
are nearly always human-caused disturbance and development,
and that species shifts are a symptom, not a cause, of
this habitat destruction. Beyond the War on Invasive Species
is an important book that offers a path away from unsuccessful
restoration efforts?based on poor science and policy?and
toward new, ecologically sound programs for building and
preserving biodiversity.”--Toby Hemenway,
author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
and The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban,
Suburban, and Town Resilience

“Beyond
the War on Invasive Species is part of a new, much more
nuanced conversation about ‘invasive’ species
that is taking place in science, agriculture, and land
management. It provides an analysis of the new science
that looks for ecosystem function as well as harm from
newly arrived species, looks at species migration in the
context of climate change, and broadens our conversation
to look at these organisms in the context of the human
ecological footprint. Orion offers land management guidelines,
based in permaculture design process, that help to chart
a new way forward in our new land of novel ecosystems.”--Eric
Toensmeier, author of Paradise Lot and Perennial Vegetables

“Tao
Orion has brought together personal experience, careful
study, and visionary thinking to turn us toward becoming
useful people of place. Her exploration widens the narrow
concept of invasion (so often repeated but seldom carefully
thought through) and elucidates the trouble of short sightedness.
We are not threatened by aliens, but rather we are turning
our backs on the big picture.”--Tom Ward,
author of Greenward, Ho! Herbal Home Remedies and cofounder
of Siskiyou Permaculture

“Beyond
the War on Invasive Species is a devastating exposé
of the military industrial invasive species complex and
a sorely needed and impeccably researched volume that
should become one of many as we recover from self-destructive
attempts to eradicate parts of nature instead of acting
with an understanding of the whole.”--Ben
Falk, author of The Resilient Farm and Homestead and founder
of Whole Systems Design

Permaculture
design is a powerful tool for creating systems that
meet our human needs but also support the ecosystem
as a whole. It applies ecological principles to designing
gardens, farms, community projects, even entire human
settlements. The standard seventy-two-hour Permaculture
Design (PDC) course is taught all over the world to
farmers, gardeners, design professionals, and world
changers who want to practically create a healthier,
more equitable planet.

Rosemary
Morrow offers evidence for permaculture’s effectiveness
and describes each unit of the PDC’s curriculum.
This fully revised and updated edition contains a wealth
of technical information for teaching permaculture design
and includes new findings in emerging disciplines such
as regenerative agriculture. The Earth User’s
Guide to Teaching Permaculture is of key relevance to
teachers and students of architecture, landscape design,
ecology, and other disciplines like geography, regenerative
agriculture, agro-ecology, and agroforestry, as well
as permaculture design. It leads the reader step by
step through a recommended course structure, providing
a flexible approach that encourages the adaptation of
the materials for specific bioregional and cultural
conditions. With advice on teaching aids, topics for
class discussion, extensive reading lists, and tips
on teaching adults, this book is bound to be an invaluable
friend to the experienced and novice teacher alike.

A
working document for a new theory of architecture, building,
and planning which forms the basis for a new traditional
post-industrial architecture created by people. It introduces
the archetypal language which allows lay person to design
for themselves. "Brilliant....Here's how to design or
redesign any space you're living or working in--from
metropolis to room. Consider what you want to happen
in the space, and then page through this book. Its radically
conservative observations will spark, enhance, organize
your best ideas, and a wondrous home, workplace, town
will result"--San Francisco Chronicle

"I
believe this to be perhaps the most important book on
architectural design published this century. Every library,
every school, every environmental action group, every
architect, and every first-year student should have
a copy." Tony Ward, Architectural Design

"[This
book] is a gift . . . With curiosity, wit, and a spare
and graceful style, Krafel notes why birds in flocks
land as they do, how islands can move upstream in a
river, how kelp forests, swaying gently, break the force
of the sea's power, how tundra plants create whole ecosystems
on bare rock from mere specks of life. Yet there are
no long-winded sermons about the woods, or cute anthropomorphizations
of animals.

The
book's economical, unsentimental style is part of its
originality."—Barbara Damrosch

Seeing Nature is a series of true, parable-like stories
that offer tools for understanding relationships in
the natural world. Many of the stories take the reader
to wild landscapes, including canyons, tundra, and mountain
ridges, while others contemplate the human-made world:
water-diversion trenches and supermarket check-out lines.

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